In Mexico, hundreds of U.S.-bound migrants found packed in trucks

Migrants sit in a complex field of Public Security after hundreds of Central Americans packed into three long cargo trucks headed to the United States were detained in northern Mexico late Thursday in, according to police, one of the biggest such round-ups of U.S.-bound migrants by Mexican authorities in years, in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico in this picture provided to Reuters on October 8, 2021, by Seguridad Publica de Tamaulipas/Handout via REUTERS

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Police in northern Mexico discovered more than 600 Central American migrants hiding in three long cargo trucks headed to the United States late on Thursday, in one of the biggest round-ups of U.S.-bound migrants by Mexican authorities in years.

Video released by police showed officers prying off a lock from a truck's rear door and opening it only to find migrants in heavy coats and hoods huddled close together on the floor, nearly all of them wearing face masks.